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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Via JMG: Maya Angelou: Don't Give Up Your Vote

"We
are here in direct relation to the heroes and she-roes who paid with
their lives for this right. Many of us are old enough to remember what
it felt like to be told we could not register to vote without taking a
test or paying a poll tax. Some were asked how many angels danced on a
head of a pin, how many bubbles were in a bar of soap. We are here
because four courageous college freshmen sat down at a lunch counter in
Greensboro in 1960, four years before the passage of the Civil Rights
Act, to make a stand for equality. It’s a terrible thing to obstruct
access to the ballot. But we follow all those who had the courage to
dare to live so we can dare to live.

"Because of them, we are here. So vote to keep moving us forward. And
carry with you your friends, family and neighbors. Carry them from your
congregations, your beauty salons and barbershops, your sororities and
fraternities. Carry with you those five people whose vote could make the
difference. You may be pretty or plain, heavy or thin, gay or straight,
poor or rich. But nobody has more votes than you. All human beings are
more equal to each other than they are unequal. And voting is the great
equalizer. It is important. It is imperative. There is no time for
complacency." - Maya Angelou, writing for the Winston-Salem Journal.

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Daniel Clark Orey, Ph.D. is Professor
Emeritus of Mathematics and Multicultural Education at California State
University, Sacramento where he served from 1987 to January 2011. At the same
university, he was an instructor in the Department of Learning Skills
(Department of Learning Skills) and served as a faculty member in the doctoral
program in Educational Leadership (Educational Leadership). As Coordinator and
Principal Investigator of Algorithm Collection Project, Dr. Orey is interested
in studying the various ways in which newly arrived immigrants in California
communities, think, reason and calculate mathematically. Dr. Orey graduated
from Oregon State University in 1978 and began teaching at Monitor Elementary
School in Mount Angel, Oregon. Later, he also taught mathematics at the
following schools: Riverdale School in Portland, Oregon, the American School of
Guatemala in Guatemala City and at the Escuela Americana de Bananera,
Guatemala. Dr. Orey earned his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction in
Multicultural Education at the University of New Mexico in 1988. Both his
masters and doctoral research studies were funded by Mellon-Tinker Foundation
grants. During his doctoral research, Dr. Orey served as a consultant at the
Colegio Americano de Puebla and for Apple de Mexico. His masters work took him
to Patzun, Chimaltenango in Guatemala where he did field research with
computers and Mayan children. In 1992, Dr. Orey had an important role in
founding the Sociedade Internacional para Estudos da Criança with the late Prof. Ruy Krebbs, where he served
as general secretary for several terms. In the period 1995 to 1998, Dr. Orey
was the director of Professional Development and the Center for Teaching and
Learning at California State University, Sacramento. In 1998, at the invitation
of Professor Ubiratan D'Ambrosio, Dr. Orey served as a Fulbright Scholar at the
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas in Brasil, which he conducted
research in classrooms and taught courses in ethnomathematics and mathematical
modeling. During the 2005-2006 school year, Dr. Orey served as visiting
professor and researcher, sponsored by CNPq in the area of mathematics
education, ethnomathematics at the Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto. In 2007,
Dr. Orey served as Senior Fulbright Specialist in Kathmandu University, Nepal,
giving lectures on topics related to mathematics education and teaching on
Ethnomathematics and modeling. Dr. Orey has published numerous books, articles
and book chapters in several languages. He also taught workshops and courses,
conducted oral presentations, and lectured in several countries. Dr. Orey
speaks and writes fluently in English, Portuguese and Spanish.

He is currently professor of mathematics
education in the Centro de Educação Aberta e a Distância Universidade Federal
de Ouro Preto, Brasil.